New episode of one of my favorite documentary series...the Fall of Civilizations

[pecosbob]

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"Each episode, we look at a civilization that rose to glory, and then collapsed into the ashes of history. We ask: Why did it collapse? What happened next? And what did it feel like to be a person alive at the time?"

I'm struck by parallels between this empire and ours...

[FSogol]

1. The creator of this podcast turned down Elon Musk asking for them to upload to Twitter in this

exchange:

Mr Musk appealed to the makers of the popular Fall of Civilizations show on Twitter on Sunday, asking them to “please upload your podcasts to this platform too”.

The podcast’s Twitter account issued a polite but firm no, saying that the social media platform had become a “safe haven for hate speech” under the Tesla CEO’s ownership.

“Hi Elon, at present the platform is too compromised for me to consider it,” the Paul Cooper-hosted podcast wrote back.

“It’s become a safe haven for hate speech, and meanwhile crypto scammers and bots are paying to be boosted to the top of replies. Everything that once made Twitter special seems to be leaching away.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-civilizations-podcast-twitter-b2356144.html

[keithbvadu2]

2. 1+

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. The episode on the fall of Roman Britain is haunting.